Anthropic just released the Claude AI Usage by Country data via the
Anthropic Economic Index (sample: Nov 13–20, 2025).
The metric is simple: a score above 1x means a country's share of
Claude usage exceeds its share of the global working-age population.
🏆 Top performers
| Country | Score |
|---|---|
| 🇮🇱 Israel | 4.90x |
| 🇸🇬 Singapore | 4.19x |
| 🇨🇭 Switzerland | 3.21x |
| 🇰🇷 South Korea | 3.12x |
| 🇦🇺 Australia | 3.27x |
| 🇺🇸 USA | 3.69x |
| 🇨🇦 Canada | 3.15x |
📉 Lowest usage
| Country | Score |
|---|---|
| 🇹🇿 Tanzania | 0.03x |
| 🇲🇬 Madagascar | 0.07x |
| 🇲🇿 Mozambique | 0.13x |
What's interesting
- Europe is surprisingly strong — France (2.66x), UK (2.59x), Ireland (2.39x), Norway (2.43x). Even countries like Poland (1.41x) and Greece (1.21x) are above baseline.
- Asia is split — Singapore (4.19x) and South Korea (3.12x) are crushing it, while India (0.22x) and Indonesia (0.48x) are far below 1x.
- Africa and Latin America are mostly sub-1x — likely a mix of pricing, language support, and infrastructure.
- Japan at 1.59x — higher than I expected given the strong local AI ecosystem (Claude competes with domestic models there).
My take
The correlation seems to be: **English proficiency + tech sector density
- GDP per capita**. Israel's dominance makes sense — massive tech industry, high English fluency, small population (so the ratio amplifies easily).
The really interesting story is what happens as Claude adds more
languages and local pricing — countries like Brazil (0.70x) and Mexico
(0.44x) feel like huge untapped markets.
Source: Anthropic Economic Index. Data as of Jan 15, 2026.
What's your country's score? Did anything surprise you?
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